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What Is Darwin (and How It Powers Mac OS X) | |
| Subject: | Tweaking kernel | |
| Date: | 2005-09-28 22:03:32 | |
| From: | John_Fieber | |
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Response to: Tweaking kernel
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The point of kernel extensions in the I/O Kit is to allow Mac OS X's kernel to dynamically load device drivers as needed when booting. Linux can't do this.
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Tweaking kernel
2005-09-29 05:18:48 Mafretete [View]
The problem with Linux is that you cannot ship a precompiled kernel module - it would not work with a slightly different kernel. On Mac OS X, most kernel extensions for OS X 10.3 still work in OS X 10.4, even though 10.4's kernel is much newer. -
Tweaking kernel
2005-09-30 19:30:37 thebluesgnr [View]
But you don't have to build a new kernel if the module is linked against a different version, just rebuild the module, which is usually a very simple and easy thing to do.
